Ticket container



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TICKET CONTAINER @y ym@ Patented July 26, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE PAUL P. BEYER, OF PARK RIDGE, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO RAND MCNALLY & COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS TICKET CONTAINER Application filed May` 17,

Y practice stored in cases in a position to permit of the ready slipping of the tickets one by one out of the cases for delivery `to the purchasers.

These tickets, in accordance with common practice, are delivered by the printers 1n containers containing a predetermined number thereof usually a hundred or more and in packaged condition are delivered by the railroads to their various depot agents who unpackage the tickets for introduction into the cases above referred to;

In the auditing o-f the agent-s stocks of tickets from timeto time by the auditors of the railway companies it is common practice for the auditors to credit the agents with the number of unused tickets contained in the original containers, without counting the tickets when the containers show no evidence of tempering.

However, as tickets have been packaged in accordance with prior practice, it has been possible for the agents to open the containers and remove a few of the tickets and restore the containers to their original condition and without bearing any evidence that the same have been opened, which has led, in many instances, to the crediting of the agents with full containerswhen some of the tickets have been removed therefrom, with consequent loss 3.5 to the railway companies. Y

My primary object is to provide lfor the so packaging of tickets that it will be impossible for the container to be tampered with and tickets removed, without clearly indicating that the container has been tampered with, in which event the auditors, instead of passing the container as containing the full amount of tickets, will count the same in determining the credit to be given the agent.

Another object is to provide av simple and inexpensive construction of container from which the tickets contained therein cannot be removed without clearly indicating that the container has been tampered with.

Referring to the accompanying drawings:

yblank of lFig. 3 in partially folded condi- 1930. Serial No. 453,331.

Figure 1 is aperspective view of a container for tickets constructed in accordance with my invention.

Figure 2 is a section taken at the line 2-2 on Fig. 1 and viewed in the direction of the arrows. v v

Figure 3 is a plan view of one of the blanks from which the container is formed. Y

Figure 4 is al view in elevation showing the 6o tion.

Figure 5 is a perspective View of an insert section forming a part of the container.

' Figure 6 is a perspective view of the blank of Fig. 3 with the insert of Fig. 5 positioned therein, this view showing the blank partially folding into package-forming condition; and

Figure 7, an end view of the completed container. l

Referring to the blank shown in Fig. 34 and which constitutes the main portion of the container, it is made of any desirable material as for example paper, and is formed of a main portion 8 of rectangular shape and a laterally extending portion 9 located midway between its opposite ends.

The main portion 8 Aof the blank is provided with parallel folding lines 10 and 1l spaced apart and extending lengthwise of the portion 8 and parallel with its long edges, these foldino lines being intersected by parallel folding lines 12, 13, 14 and 15. The portion of the blankdeined by the lines v10, 11, 12 and 14 and represented at 16 constitutes the bottom of the container.

The blank is slit along those portions of the lines 12, 13, 14 and 15 which extend outwardly beyond the lines 10 and 11 as represented at 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 24, and the blank is slottedalong the folding line 11 between the intersections of the lines 12 and 14 therewith, as represented at V25.

The portions of the blank defined by the lines 10 and the slits 17 and21 and by the lines 11 and the slits 18'and 22 and represented at 26 andv 27, respectively, form opposite side walls of the container andthe portions defined by the lines 10, 11, 12 and 13 and b v the lines 10, 11, 14 and 1 5, these portions being represented at 28 and 29, respectively, form the rear and front walls of the container, the front wall, in accordance with common practice containing openings 30 and 31 for the exposing to view therethroughv of the front ticket in accordance with common practice.l

The extension portion 9connected with the portion 8 of the blank along a folding line 32, is provided with parallel spaced apart folding lines 33 and .34, the portion of the blank between the lines 32 and 34 and represented at 35 forming the top of the container; the portion between the folding lines 33 and 34 and represented at 36, :and the ends of which converge outwardly as represented at is represented at 38 forming a tongue for insertion through the slot 25 as will be hereinafter described.

The container also involves the provision of an insert member 39 (Fig. which also may be of cardboard, this insert member comprising a substantially rectangular portion 40 provided along one of its longer edges with a flange portion 41.

The blank of Fig. '3 is manipulated and assembled with the insert as shown in Fig. to form the container in the following manner: The wall forming portions 26, 27, 28 and 29 are folded upwardly on Ithe portion 16 to extend substantially at right angles thereto and the insert .section 39 introduced into the partially formed container to the position shown in Fig. 6, the section 39 lying latwise at its portion 40 upon the portion 16, with its flange 41 projecting upwardly and in substantial vertical alinementV with the slot 25.

The tab sections at the ends of the portion 28 and represented at 42 and 43 and the .similar tab Isections at the end of the portion 29 :and represented at 44 and 4.5 and the four corner sections represented at 46, 47, 48 and 49 are bent inwardly along the folding lines and 11 substantially to the position :shown in Figs. 4 andV '3.

y The tickets to be packaged are introduced into the partially folded blank to bear at edges thereof against the portion 16, and the portions d-eiined by the lines 10, 11 and 13 and represented at 510, and between the lines 10, 11 and 15 and represented at 51 are then bent along the folding lines 1'3 and 15 to eX- tend inwardly tow-ard each other in which vposition they overlie the stack of tickets positioned as vabove stated. In this operation the portions 42 and 44 are manipulated to yextend between the porti-on 27 of the blank and the flange 41 and the portions y43 and 45 are manipulated to extend adjacent the inner surface of the portion 26; the portions 46 and v48 are manipulated to lie :alongside the inner surface of the flange 41 and the portions 47 and 49 are manipulated to lie along the inner surfaces of the portions 43 and 45, respectively. The extension portion 9 is then folded over on the folding line 32 to overlie at its portion the portions 50 and 51, and then folded along the lines 34 and '33 and the tongue 38 introduced through the slot 25 into a position in which it extends between the portion 16 of the blank and the portion 40 of the section '39, the portion of the blank between the lines 33 and 34 overlying the wallforming portion 27.

Preliminary to the assembling of the section 39 with tl e blank of Fig. 3 as stated, adhesive, such as-glue, is applied to 'the under side of the portion of the section 39, or the upper surface of the portion 16 of the main blank, or to both. rfhus when the tongue 38 is introduced through the slot 25, lto become positioned between the portions 1G and 40, this tongue will become irmly adhered to both portions 16 and 40 which it flatwise opposes.

lf desired, and preferably, the porti-ons 42, 43, 44 and 45 of the blank may be glued in place as for example by applying glue to the surfaces thereof which extend uppermost in Fig. 3, whereby these portions become adhered to the outer surfaces of the portions 46, 47, 48 and 49 which they oppose.

It will be readily understood from the foregoing that by providing a container as above described it is impossible to open the same for the removal of the tickets packaged thereby, without so mutilating the container that it will present clear evidence of having been tampered with. 'The Igluing of the tab 13 to the undersurface of the insert section 39 not. only positively prevents the withdrawal of the tongue 38 from sealing position, but prevents the loosening of the adhesive by steaming without causing such warpage of the container as to clearly indicate that it has been tampered with.

Again, the formation of the ends of the container is such that these ends cannot be displaced for rendering the tickets accessible for withdrawal from the'container, without vwasted stock. Thus the section 39 may be 2:;1

cut from either of the opposite upper corner portions (Fig. of the sheet the foldin g line at the connection between the portions 40 and 41 thereof being formed `at the Sametime as, and as a continuation of, the lines 20, 13

nd 19, or 22, 14 and 2l, as the case may W'hile I have illustrated and described a particular construction embodying my invention, I do not wish to be understood as intending to limit it thereto as the saine may be variously modified and altered without departing from the spirit of my invention.

'What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A theftproof packaging container having an enclosing portion including a. first pair of flatwise opposed walls and a second pair of fiatwise opposed walls disposed at an angle to the first mentioned pair, front and rear walls on said enclosing portion having tabs at their ends disposed within the container, extensions on said front and rear walls proj ecting into the container a sufficient distance to prevent withdrawal of the latter, and a tongue on the enclosing portion extending into the container past the second pair of walls and intermediate the walls of the first pair and in adhering relation to the innermost wall of the first pair.

2. A theftproof packaging container having an enclosing portion including a first pair of latwise opposed walls and a second pair of flatwise opposed walls disposed at an angle to the first mentioned pair, front and rear walls on said enclosing portion having tabs at their ends disposed within the container, extensions on said front and rear walls projecting' into the container a sufhcient distance to prevent withdrawal of the latter, corner sections extending at a right angle from the extensions and coacting with the front and rear walls and said tabs, and a tongue on the enclosing portion extending into the container past the second pair of walls and intermediate the walls of the first pair and in adhering relation to the innermost wall of the first pair.

3. A theftproof packaging container having an enclosing portion including a first pair of fiatwise opposed walls and a second pair of fiatwise opposed walls disposed at an angle to the first mentioned pair, front and rear walls on said enclosing portion having tabs at their ends disposed within the container with one tab of each side wall located intermediate the walls of the second mentioned pair and in adhering relation to the outermost wall thereof, extensions on said :front and rear walls projecting into the container a sufficient distance to prevent withdrawal of the latter, and a tongue on the enclosing portion extending into the container past the second pair of walls and intermediate the walls of the first pair and in adhering relation to the innermost wall of the first pair.

4. A theftproof packaging container having a top Wall, a bottom wall, side Walls, said bottom wall and one of said side walls being of double ply, a front and a rear wall extending from the bottom wall to the top wall, tabs extending fromthe front and rear vwalls into the container with a tab of each of the front and rear walls disposed between the two plies of the front wall, extensions on the front' and rear walls projecting into the container farther than the tabs, the outermost ply of the double ply sidel wall having an opening therethrough, and a tongue on the top wall extending through said opening below the other ply of the double ply side wall and being in adhering relation to the innermost ply of the bottom wall.

5. A theftproof packaging container having a top wall, a bottom wall, side wallsan insert in` the container having walls overlapping one of the side walls and the bottom wall wherebyv they are of double ply, front and rear walls extending from the bottom wall to the top wall, tabs extending from the front and rear walls into the container with a tab of each of the front and rear walls disposed between one of the side walls and the adjacent wall ofthe insert, extensions on the front and rear walls projecting into the container farther than the tabs, the last inentioned side wall having an opening therethrough, and a tongue on the top wall extending through said opening below the adjacent wall of the insert and the bottom wall and being in adhering relation to the last mentioned adjacent wall of the insert.

6. A theftproof packaging container having an enclosing portion including a first pair of flatwise opposed walls and a second pair of flatwise opposed walls dispo-sed at an angle to the first mentioned pair, the inner ones of saidrst and second pair of walls being connected together along their adjacent edges, front and rear walls on said enclosing portion, and a tongue on the enclosing porvtion extending into the container past the second pair of walls and intermediate the walls of the first pair and in adhering relation to the innermost wall of the first pair.

7. A theftproof packaging container having an enclosing portion including a first pair of flatwise opposed walls and a second pair of flatwise opposed walls disposed at an angle to the first mentioned pair, the inner ones of said first and second pair of walls being connected together along their adjacent edges, said enclosing portion having an opening adjacent the juncture of the outermost ones of said first and second pair of walls and the inner one of said second pair of walls extending beyond the ends of said opening, front and rear walls on said enclosing portion, and a tongue on the enclosing portion extending through said opening int-o the container past the second pair of walls and intermediate the walls of the first pair and in adhering relation to the innermost wall of the rst pair.

8. A theftproof packaging container having an enclosing portion including a first 'Cir pair of llatwise opposed walls and a vsecond pairlof atwise opposed Walls disposed at an angl-e to the first .mentioned pair, the inner ones of said first and second pair of Walls being formed as a section separate from the outermost ones of said first and second pairs of Walls and being connected togetherv along their adjacent edges, front andre-ar Walls on said enclosing portion, andv a tongue' on the enclosingportion extending into the eon tainer past the second pair of Walls and intermediate the Walls of the first pair and in Vadhering relation to the innermost Wall of the rst pair.

9. A theftproof packaging container according to claim 6 wherein said front and rear Walls are interlocled Within yand to the container to prevent Withdrawal of the front and rear Walls.

l0. A theftproof packaging container according to claim 7 wherein said front and rear Walls are interlocked Within and to the container to prevent Withdrawal of the front and rear Walls.

l1. A tlieftproof packaging container according to claim 8 wherein .sa-id front and rear Walls are interlocked Within and to the container to prevent Withdrawal of the front and rear Walls` PAUL P. BEYER. 

